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POPS80-Year Anniversary Of "Black Tuesday"
More commonly known as "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929 was the last of four so-called "black" days which ushered in the Great Depression. In fact, the stock market collapse in the U.S. for at least one month after Black Tuesday. Eventually, the Great Depression grew into a worldwide financial calamity that lasted, by most conventional accounts, until the end of World War II. By 1933, the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) was cut in half. The Depression caused many farmers to lose their farms. At the same time, years of erosion and a drought created the “Dust Bowl” in the Midwest, where no crops could grow. Many traveled to California to find work, a subject written about by John Steinbeck in "The Grapes of Wrath." Many others ended up living as “hobos” or in “Hoovervilles”, make-shift homeless encampments named after then-President Herbert Hoover. During the 1928 Presidential campaign, Hoover campaigned on a number of slogans, one of which was "Vote for Pros
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POPSWall Street's Naked Swindle This was a brokered bloodletting, one in which the power of the state was used to help effect a monstrous consolidation of financial and political power. Heading into 2008, there were five major investment banks in the United States: Bear, Lehman, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Today only Morgan Stanley and Goldman survive as independent firms, perched atop a restructured Wall Street hierarchy. And while the rest of the civilized world responded to last year's catastrophes with sweeping measures to rein in the corruption in their financial sectors, the United States invited the wolves into the government, with the popular new president, Barack Obama — elected amid promises to clean up the mess — filling his administration with Bear's and Lehman's conquerors, bestowing his papal blessing on a new era of robbery. Read the whole nasty sociopathic scam
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POPSThe NeverEndingSandStory We did it. We did it. We did it. Sometimes 10 miles a year, sometimes 20 miles of good earth blowing away in South America, North America, North Africa, Western Russia, Australia, and China with a vengance. Why more sand? During the 1960s in Russia, China, India, and North America lands that were never farmed intensively were - now they are blowing in the wind.
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POPSNo Drought Required For Federal Drought Aid
"In this county, we got a lot of questions from producers: 'Why are we eligible?' " recalled Tom Schneider, the head of the USDA office in Manitowoc County, where livestock owners got $1.5 million. "Our answer was 'Because we were told you were eligible.' " Several Wisconsin counties qualified on the basis of a two-year-old disaster declaration for a January 2001 snowstorm. "It was a nasty winter storm," recalled Teresa Zimmer, the USDA official in Green County. Asked how the storm affected ranchers, she said, "There were several days where livestock owners couldn't get to the market . . . to sell their animals." Ranchers in Green County collected nearly $1.5 million. One of those who got a payment was Cornell Kasbergen, who helps run family dairy farms in Green County and Tulare County, Calif. Family members received a total of $72,000 in livestock funds, records show. It was a program that was available that we took advantage of, did we have any losses? I couldn't tell you.
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POPS10 Days To Save the World: The Adventures of Diana Salinger Game 10 Days To Save the World: The Adventures of Diana Salinger, You only have 10 Days to Save the World! Find the secrets of an ancient amulet to stop flooding in Venice, a drought in Africa and the other disasters occurring all over the planet. Travel around the globe as you help Diana track down her father and explore the mysteries of the timeless amulet in this exciting Hidden Object game. Can you end the cataclysmic events and save the entire planet from destruction?
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POPSEver Wish Obama Was More Like Reagan? Even Ford and Carter did a better job at cutting government. Their combined presidential terms account for an increase of 1.4%—compared with Reagan's 3%—in the government's take of "national income." And in nominal terms, there has been a 60% increase in government spending, thanks mainly to Reagan's requested budgets, which were only marginally smaller than the spending Congress voted. The budget for the Department of Education, which candidate Reagan promised to abolish along with the Department of Energy, has more than doubled to $22.7 billion, Social Security spending has risen from $179 billion in 1981 to $269 billion in 1986. The price of farm programs went from $21.4 billion in 1981 to $51.4 billion in 1987, a 140% increase. And this doesn't count the recently signed $4 billion "drought-relief" measure. Medicare spending in 1981 was $43.5 billion; in 1987 it hit $80 billion. Federal entitlements cost $197.1 billion in 1981—and $477 billion in 1987. (Written in 1988)
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POPS Dust Storm in Sydney, Australia 9.23.2009 No one was hurt as a result of the pall that swept in overnight, bringing an eerie orange dawn to Sydney. Dust clouds blowing east from Australia’s dry interior " parched even further by the worst drought on record " covered dozens of towns and cities in two states as strong winds snatched up tons of topsoil, threw it high into the sky and carried it hundreds of miles. Photos by Stuart Hannagan/Getty Images; Brendon Thorne/Getty Images; GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images; Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images; AP Photo/Rob Griffith; Photo by Matt Blyth/Getty Images
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POPSRed Sky in the morning sailors warning! It is dry very dry. The dust storm that hit southern parts of Au east coast today is making its way up north. With a bit of luck when we wake up tomorrow morning it is to a blue sky. It goes to show how dependent we are on a clean environment.
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POPSSo much food. So much hunger. "David Beckmann, president of the antihunger group Bread for the World, boiled the causes down into one unifying theme " 'a lack of give a damn.'"
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POPSRepublicans Call for Action to Address Man-Made Drought
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Natural Resources Committee held a full committee hearing today on the "The California Drought: Actions by Federal and State agencies to address impacts on lands, fisheries and water users. Republicans have offered numerous solutions to provide necessary relief to families, farmers and businesses in California's San Joaquin Valley who are struggling to survive in the midst of a man-made drought. Solutions include passing legislation (specifically H.R. 996 and H.R. 856) to suspend the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act during times of drought emergency to ensure that the Delta pumps operate at historic capacity, encouraging the Administration to take steps to allow for water transfers and temporary barriers to keep smelt away from the pumps, and offering new water storage as a longer-term proposal to help the State in alternating times of drought and floods. Congressman Devin Nunes (CA-21) warned, "This Congress . . .
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POPSMr. President, You Had A Beer-Summit, California Farmers Need A Water Summit DAN HARRIS: In California, the problem is not too much wet weather, but not enough of it. A drought combined with the bad economy have delivered a one-two punch to the Central Valley, where much of the nation's food is grown. 100,000 acres went unplanted last year, and this year, it could be 750,000 acres. Economists say that will mean $1.5 billion in lost income and the elimination of 40,000 jobs. Lisa Fletcher is in California tonight. LISA FLETCHER: In just a glance, you know something is very wrong. PETE RAMIREZ, CROP DUSTER: It's like a desert. A couple of years ago, it was all farmland and everybody had a job. THEDA LAWRENCE, MENDOTA: What are the people gonna do? How are they gonna eat whenever there's no farming? FLETCHER: A quarter of the nation's fruits and vegetables are grown here in California's Central Valley. But the farmers here have been hit with two crises at the same time. They're in their third year of severe drought. And now, they must also cope . . .
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POPSLIVE SHOW FROM THE VALLEY ON WATER What: LIVE on the Sean Hannity Show for FoxNews When: Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Time: Show goes live at 6:00pm (my suggestion is to plan on arriving by 5:00pm, because we are expecting THOUSANDS of people to attend) Where: A fallowed field on the Westside in Fresno County (Tomatoes were grown on this land in 2008, but in 2009 NOTHING was planted because of the water cut-off) Location: Located on the south side of Highway 198, to the west of the Fresno/Kings County line. The field is exactly 8 miles WEST of Lemoore Naval Air Station. The field is very easy to find, because the main entrance is marked with a speed limit sign and a white wrought iron gate. (See photo of entrance attached) Also, the area will be clearly marked with signs and banners.
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POPSSchwarzenegger Challenges Mother Nature To A Fight The governor ultimately decided against his plan - although he did successfully put out a small fire by squeezing it between his bicep. Instead Schwarzenegger is going straight to the source. "Mother nature will pay. I will grab her puny ankles and shake her until money falls out." At that moment Schwarzenegger turned to a camera and said, "now that's change we can believe in."
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POPSKenya's Elephants Die of Drought and Poaching Although Kenya was not included in the sale, Douglas-Hamilton said any ivory sales immediately push up global demand, since elephants could be killed in Kenya and their tusks smuggled into a foreign stockpile. Around 23,000 elephants live in Kenya but populations can be devastated by poaching within a couple of years. A recent survey in Chad showed its elephant population had declined from 3,800 to just over 600 in the past three years. "The drought is one of nature's big events," he said. "It hits all animals, elephants, people and others but the ivory trade is much more serious and could do much more damage if it remains unchecked.
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